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Revisions Show Slower Recovery, Deeper Recession

The recession was deeper, and the subsequent recovery slower, than the government originally estimated, the Commerce Department said Friday.

The revisions help explain why the U.S. economy has lost so many more jobs than economists would have predicted given the magnitude of the previously reported decline in GDP.

The government marked down...

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